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My new PC
Jun 25^th, 2008 at 1:11pm

I'm building a rig and all my parts should be to my place by the time I get home. Its my first build and my total cost without monitor is roughly $1,150. Yea, its cheaper than I had expected and I think I made a few bad choices with some of the parts, but here is the list.

Intel E8400 @ 3.0 Ghz (I will probably overclock)
ASUS P5Q pro (I wish I would have chosen a nvidia 790i board)
nvidia 9800 GTX
2GB GSkill DDR2 800 (ram too slow? might get more/faster ram later)
500GB WD HDD
LiteOn DVD RW (will get a blue ray drive soon)
Coolermaster Cosmos (Black)
Zalman 92mm CPU heatsink

My monitor....... Shocked

28" LCD Hanns-G on sale for $489 with free shipping.

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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #1 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 1:18pm Looks good to me. Let me know if you do change out the ram and notice a change... Also, which case did you choose? crosses fingers for hello kitty case Holy compensation batman! 28'' monitor.
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Stick Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Stick is back Posts: 501 Michgan Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #2 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 1:42pm http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119150 It was $70 off with a combo deal
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #3 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 4:25pm Has anyone cracked Blu-Ray encryption yet? I haven't been wanting to make the transfer anytime in my lifetime so I wouldn't know but was curious. X
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Stick Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Stick is back Posts: 501 Michgan Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #4 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 4:33pm my co worker says anyDVD HD will do it.
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Re: My new PC
Reply #5 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 5:04pm

28"?! For the love of all that is holy!

I'd make a joke about you compensating for something, but I'm really sorta jealous.

Your system looks pretty nice. You'll have to let us know how the 9800GTX works out. I've been drooling over the new GTX 280's, but I don't have $650 to drop on a freaking video card. My 8800 GTS 512 is still holding out quite nicely, but I'll probably buy another video card closer to Christmas.

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Stick Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Stick is back Posts: 501 Michgan Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #6 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 11:07pm I just put the system together and I cannot find the power button on this case!!! Am I blind or something?
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Stick Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Stick is back Posts: 501 Michgan Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #7 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 11:10pm This just in..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0e18EJrUSE It has a biometric power button. No physical parts move to turn the case on, you just tap a certain area and the system turns on!
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #8 - Jun 26^th, 2008 at 8:31am Hopefully, it is slightly less annoying than the power/reset/eject buttons on the PS3. I hate those things. Traditional "clicky" power buttons have worked just fine for decades. I don't need this biometric BS! -b0b (...is old school like that.)
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #9 - Jun 26^th, 2008 at 9:27am You and your damned clicky keyboard!
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #10 - Jun 26^th, 2008 at 9:28am You're just jealous of my incredibly loud keyboardin' skills! -b0b (...so HA!)
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Stick Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Stick is back Posts: 501 Michgan Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #11 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 12:36pm What do you guys think about this.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220342 I could fit my OS and my frequently used applications on this and it'd be crazy fast.
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #12 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 1:35pm Step 1) Buy 2, go Raid 0. Step 2) ??? Step 3) Profit!!
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computerjuvenile GeekCrew Luser Offline Posts: 154 Houghton, Michigan Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #13 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 8:30pm I priced a few hard drives on newegg. It's roughly 11 cents a gigabyte for most drives. For solid state your paying 30 cents. Sure it's good to use to house a operating system, but to make a RAID array of it, I'm not sure about that.
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Re: My new PC
Reply #14 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 11:05pm

Actually, I was looking into buying one for my OS to reside on, but the reviews on most solid state drives SUCK. They have poor life expectancy (which makes no sense to me) and poor write speeds (which also makes no sense to me). Most of the cheap drives in the sub-$400 range are pure crap because they use crappy MLC memory.

The higher-end drives with SLC memory are excellent, but I'm not shelling out $700 for 64GB of storage. I could buy a 15,000 RPM SCSI drive for that price.

The only market I see for these MLC drives at this point is for laptops and tablets. Heat is virtually non-existent, they don't make any noise, and they use far less power. Until vendors can offer superior memory at a lower price point, these things just aren't worth it to me.

-b0b
(...will probably do a RAID 50 instead.)

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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #16 - Oct 18^th, 2008 at 1:18pm Damn Stick 28"? I just bought a 22" to go with my HD Radeon, and thats enough to make my eyes bleed after 4 or 5 hours on the computer. Overkill much?
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Re: My new PC
Reply #17 - Oct 18^th, 2008 at 1:24pm

Yeah, 28" is pretty crazy. How does that thing even fit on your desk? Pictures!

I completely understand, though. I just added a second 22" monitor to my setup a couple months ago, and I don't know how I ever lived with out it. I've got two 17" monitors on both of my rigs at work, and even that seems pretty anemic by comparison.

Oh, and Wes, why the hell did you buy a Radeon?

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Stick Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Stick is back Posts: 501 Michgan Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #18 - Oct 19^th, 2008 at 4:49pm http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p6290128oq8.jpg
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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #19 - Oct 19^th, 2008 at 6:15pm nice! thats a beast of a tower.
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Stick Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Stick is back Posts: 501 Michgan Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #20 - Oct 19^th, 2008 at 9:16pm Yea, the tower is huge but it's a really nice one that I got a good deal on($170 normally $250). The cable management is unbelievable in there. This is a good showcase of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inoemsx7Qoo
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: My new PC Reply #21 - Oct 22^nd, 2008 at 11:06am MediaMaster wrote on Oct 19^th, 2008 at 6:15pm: nice! thats a beast of a tower. Are you hitting on him? -b0b (...has heard that same line a time or two.)
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